Cinderella's Dream takes top spot in Falmouth Stakes
Cinderella's Dream (5-2) looked the have the measure of Crimson Advocate only for January (6-4 favourite) to deliver her challenge, with Buick's mount battling all the way to the line to prevail by half a length, with a length and three-quarters back to Crimson Advocate in third.
'I did think when she hit the rising ground it would take a tough one to get past her,' said Appleby, who was winning the Falmouth for the first time.
🔵 Cinderella's Dream – back in business with @Tattersalls1766 Falmouth Stakes glory pic.twitter.com/l1SSFGvHbB
— Racing TV (@RacingTV) July 11, 2025
'I'll be honest, I don't know if she was firing on all cylinders at Ascot. We always look for excuses when we're beaten so we used the bend and the 3lb penalty, but she's been round Del Mar and you ain't going to get many tighter turns than that, so I don't think we can say going round Ascot was going to be too much of a challenge for her.
'Will was just happy over a mile on a straight track as maybe a mile round a bend is sharp enough.
'She won her maiden at Lingfield and then we went up to Thirsk to win her novice. She's knee high to a grasshopper but she's as tough as teak and I'm delighted for her as she's been so consistent and for her to win a Group One here in Europe is richly deserved.
'We're very much going to work back from the Breeders' Cup Filly And Mare Turf. It annoyed me when that got away for us last year, so we'll go back for a crack at that, how we get there we'll work that out.'
Buick said: 'She's all class. She's been unlucky a couple of times, but today she's put it all together.
'What a game filly she is, it was a ding-dong between two good fillies, it was a good race and she had give the second filly 9lb, it's never easy.
'I'm just so pleased for her, she's been a wonderful filly all through and I'm just delighted she's got a domestic Group One next to her name.'
Hashtags
Try Our AI Features
Explore what Daily8 AI can do for you:
Comments
No comments yet...
Related Articles
Glasgow Times
34 minutes ago
- Glasgow Times
Inisherin fine after Newmarket frustration
Owned by Sheikh Mohammed Obaid, the four-year-old was 17-2 to register a second Group One success in the Newmarket feature before being withdrawn at the start on veterinary advice, with the Yorkshire-based handler appearing frustrated in the aftermath. However, Ryan reported last year's Commonwealth Cup hero to be 100 per cent and is now looking ahead to the future – which could include a trip to Deauville for the Prix Maurice de Gheest or a move up to seven furlongs for York's newly upgraded Group One City of York Stakes on August 23. 'Inisherin is fine, he's perfect,' said Ryan. 'He spread a plate and they withdrew him, but it's past tense and gone now. 'He's in the Group One at York and he's also got the option of the Prix Maurice de Gheest, but I'll discuss what we do with Sheikh Mohammed Obaid nearer the time.' A trip to France on August 10 would represent Inisherin's first outing on foreign soil, while he is as short as 8-1 with Paddy Power for success closer to his handler's Hambleton home and at a track he made a winning reappearance over a shorter distance earlier in the season.
Rhyl Journal
38 minutes ago
- Rhyl Journal
Bin Suroor is Alert to German chance for Tornado
The Saeed bin Suroor-trained colt finished fourth in the 2000 Guineas at Newmarket before coming home a creditable sixth in the Derby. He then headed to Ascot to contest the Group Three Hampton Court Stakes, where he dropped back to 10 furlongs to finish runner-up behind Aidan O'Brien's Trinity College. His next port of call is the Grosser Dallmayr-Preis, known also as the Bayerisches Zuchtrennen, a Group One event run over a mile and a quarter and a race Bin Suroor has enjoyed success in before as Kutub won it in 2001 and Benbatl prevailed in 2018. 'He is doing very well, he worked on Tuesday,' the trainer said of Tornado Alert. 'The plan is to run him in Germany at the end of the month. 'The race is on the 27th at Munich, the Grosser Dallmayr-Preis. 'It's over a mile and a quarter, which is his trip. He's been in really good form.'
Rhyl Journal
38 minutes ago
- Rhyl Journal
Rock Of Cashel gets his head in front for Navan victory
Aidan O'Brien's three-year-old had been highly tried since winning a Galway maiden last season, running in the National Stakes and the Dewhurst last autumn. This term he has been campaigned in Group and Listed company before trying his hand in a handicap to no avail at Royal Ascot. Against just three runners in this conditions race, however, he took command early in the straight under Wayne Lordan to down Johnny Murtagh's 1-4 favourite Nautical Force by two lengths at 3-1. O'Brien's stable representative Chris Armstrong said: 'The way the race worked out, it was a lovely race for him. 'In fairness to him, he has been dropped in the deep end from word go this year. He ran with credit behind Henri Matisse and Delacroix and was beaten five to six lengths behind proper Group One horses. 'Obviously, Johnny's horse brought a high level of form here. Wayne gave him a lovely ride and the race worked out for him beautifully. 'He's a horse we thought of as a stakes horse after Galway last year as a two-year-old, so hopefully this will do his confidence good and we will bring him back up to a stakes race over a mile and a-quarter and see how he goes.' Murtagh had already been on the mark with newcomer Zuheila (5-2) in the Ardboyne Hotel Maiden. Ben Coen nursed the Aga Khan Studs-owned three-year-old into the closing stages before getting down to business to beat Ger Lyons' Washington Street by half a length. Coen said: 'She's a nice, big filly and bred to have a bit of speed. She has been doing things nice at home. 'You can see why she hasn't got to the track until now, she's a big girl but she did that nicely. She had a good look when she hit the front, but hopefully she can stay improving. 'She was (doing all her best work late) – she was green running down the hill and, when I hit the rising ground, she came good.'
